MOUNT HAWTHORN will have its own streets and laneways festival, following the runaway success of similar events in Beaufort and Angove Streets. Community organisation Mt Hawthorn Hub and Vincent city council are planning for about 20,000 to come down for the inaugural event on May 3. They’ve mapped out terrain from the Cabin to Axford…

SPORTING clubs in Bayswater who lease buildings on council land will now get free rubbish removal. Cr Alan Radford, who pushed for the move, says clubs will save more than $300 a year. “It will help struggling clubs who already pay a lot of money for electricity and other utility bills,” he says. “Plus it will…

THE dysfunctional Newcastle Street/Carr Place intersection has an upgrade on the cards to turn it into a mini piazza. Just near the busy Leedy hotel, the area’s a mess of intersecting streets clogged with a quagmire of taxis, buses, cars, delivery trucks, bikes and pedestrians. Vincent council’s plan aims to make the area a little…

THE future of the Cool Breeze Cafe is secure after more than 1000 locals signed a petition calling on Bayswater council to let the cafe keep going in Riverside Gardens. The future of the popular coffee van had been in jeopardy after the council rejected a request from owner Georgia Johnson to continue using the…

CARVED from 500-year-old jarrah, Neil Turner’s work isn’t simply exquisite, it’s a once-living organism, influenced over aeons, long before white settlement. The exact age of the timber is unknown, he tells the Voice. “[It] could be older than 500 years. It’s from an old logging coupe.” He cut down to the core of the virtually…

DESPITE a gruelling battle with cancer and the collapse of live music venues in Perth, Graham Wood is still wearing a Louis Armstrong smile as The Ellington celebrates its sixth birthday this month. Co-owner Wood will celebrate but not indulge in any Charlie Parker-style debauchery: in 2013 he underwent a 13-hour “high-risk” operation to remove…

Speaking in tongues-in-cheek I HAVE a serious question for David Bell who wrote last week’s article in the Voice about US atheist Matt Dillahunty visiting Perth. In the last sentence it was stated the Voice contacted God for comment and the Voice was waiting to hear back. Now, everybody knows the Voice is a newspaper…

WE’RE all climbing Jacob’s Ladder, and it’s annoying the locals, don’cha know. For years neighbours in ritzy apartments have complained about sweaty exercisers who use the King’s Park landmark to noisily grunt up and down hundreds of step. The NOMBS (Not On My Back Steppers) want Perth city council to close the steps after-hours and…

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A PERTH VOICE PROMOTIONAL FEATURE: Beaufort Realty When it comes to real estate, experience counts, which is certainly the case at Beaufort Realty – a progressive, independent real estate company led by Pam Herron, Christine Kirkness, Jon Adams and Donna Buckovska, who together share almost 100 years’ of real estate experience. The Beaufort Realty team…